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In a recent e-mail to the Bitcoin core development mailing list, Gavin Andresen described the "worst of all possible worlds" for Bitcoin as being "no plan for how to scale up." Andresen appears to believe still that scaling is Bitcoin's only obstacle at the moment, regardless of how that must be achieved. If a fork to Bitcoin-XT is required, it seems that Andresen and others are willing to go along with that. Scaling seems to be on the minds of m...

This week, an interesting NFC Bitcoin payment system that uses NFC and works at any place that accepts credit cards has gone into alpha testing. Read up on OneBit below. HP posted an interesting article that outlines the power of the Bitcoin blockchain as a basis for contracts (and replacing ...

When Daniel Masters walked into a bitcoin conference in Amsterdam last year, he had spent more than a decade riding the boom in commodities markets. Held at the city’s sleek Passenger Terminal venue, it was far from the typical gathering of oil